1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
China, Mongolia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
China, Mongolia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Turkish Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
谢谢
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
3.12 Excuse Me
原谅我
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Khalkha Mongolian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Mongolia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA123,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Khorchin Mongolian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million5.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million5.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Mongolian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
part of 44-BAA-b
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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